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  • Endless Road To The Sea
    440 words
    Talking to Grief Ah, Grief, I should not treat you like a homeless dog who comes to the back door for a crust, for a meatless bone. I should trust you. I should coax you into the house and give you your own corner, a worn mat to lie on, your own water dish. You think I don't know you " ve been living under my porch. You long for your real place to be readied before winter comes. You need your name, your collar and tag. You need the right to warn off intruders, to consider my house your own and m...
  • Their Situational Priorities And The Available Opportunities
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    Poverty Many citizens have become ruthless victims from poverty. Perhaps some of these people could have prevented their socioeconomic downfall by planning decisions and setting goals. There are many things that they must decide to do in order to eliminate themselves from being a victim of downward mobility. For each of their important decisions they have to set goals to reach. However, should they start falling from their socioeconomic status, they must be prepared to cope with the situations. ...
  • Slang Word
    461 words
    From wicked good, to psychedelic, to "word", there is no reason why older generations never understand what the youth today consider the latest slang. Our ever-growing vocabulary, to express our emotions and feelings, is never consistent or rigid in its capacity. However, one word that I have not only grown accustomed to in my daily life but also of my mother's generation is the single syllable, "cool". When something becomes common, it is hard to tell when it began. The usage of cool as a gener...
  • Three Hours On One Word
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    Chewing it overI'm branded a "travel writer", and I don't like the term. Partly because it suggests that I live in some Whicker's World of lounges, terminals and expense accounts (well, I wouldn't mind the expense accounts... ); and partly because my favourite journeys are the shortest ones. From my front door in San'a - the first city founded after the Flood, capital of the Republic of Yemen and one of the most stunning urban landscapes in the world - it takes precisely two-and-a-half minutes t...
  • Hrafnkel's Murder Of Einar
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    Justifiable Homicide In the Scandinavian family saga, the main character Hrafnkel is justified in his killing of Einar. Although there are several reasons that Hrafnkel was unjustified in his act, the reasons supporting Hrafnkel's deed outweigh the reasons that would oppose it. The Icelandic idea of civilization, law, and the importance of one's word all provided a strong backing for Hrafnkel to act in the way that he did. Hrafnkel's murder of Einar was justified in a myriad of ways. When Hrafnk...
  • Word Stereotype
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    Hidden Burden In our society we are brainwashed every day and have been since we have exited the womb. What we don't realize is that we need to train our mind on our own to rise above all the systematically programmed propaganda. Unfortunately, due to this brain washing we are born into, we come packaged and wrapped with the lovely word stereotype; prejudice embedded deep in our mind without knowledge of it until it is confronted and exposed by pure ignorance! Now when you go to a dictionary the...
  • One And Two Lire Coins
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    The Italian Lira is a fairly new currency with roots that lie deep within Italian culture. The word 'lira' is actually derived from the Latin word 'libra', meaning pound, making it a distant cousin to that of the British pound sterling. The lira was a monetary unit long before it existed as a coin or note. The lira made its first appearance in the hands of bankers, merchants and consumers in Venice in 1472, put in place by Doge Nicolas Tron. The Venice lira set a trend for large silver coins wit...
  • Bud Abbott And Lou Costello
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    If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch,' Who's on first?' might have turned out something like this: COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer. ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou. ABBOTT: Your computer? COSTELLO: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one. ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou. ABBOTT...
  • Structural And The Semantic Principles Phraseological Units
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    Introduction I Thematic principle of classification II Classification based on the semantic principle The structural principle of classifying phraseological units IV Classification based on the combined structural-semantic principle Conclusion Introduction This is probably the most discussed - and the most controversial - problem in the field of phraseology -the task of distinguishing between A phraseological unit is a complex phenomenon with a number of important features, which can therefore b...
  • Writing With The Elegance Of Many Words
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    Greene, A Man of Few, Yet Elegant Words Graham Greene a literary master of the ages. A man who took a language of many words and summed up everything in a nice neat, pleasant to read package. As opposed to writing with the elegance of many words, he wrote with the elegance of very few, but powerful ones. Graham Greene, truly is a writer with a sense to give meaning and symbolism to such, otherwise unimportant things. Graham Greene wrote in such a manner that it caught the attention of the reader...
  • Printing Press
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    Censorship in the Written Word The written word is mankind's oldest form of recorded information. It has allowed us to read about ideas and events of times long past. Writing was once accessible only to the rich and powerful, but the printing press allowed the common people the ability to read books cheaply, and more importantly, the ability to publish books and pamphlets of their own. Using a printing press, anyone had the ability to record and distribute his or her ideas. The printed word beca...
  • One Word
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    What Kind of an American Am I What kind of an American am I To summarize it up into one word, I'm a proud American. To explain the characteristics that the word proud means to me, I took each letter in the word and made a new word. The new words represent the kind of American I am. P - patriotic; Patriotism is a quality that shows one's love for his or her country. By being patriotic, a person is being loyal to their country. It shows that they support and care for the things others have fought ...
  • One Illusion A Coetzee Novel
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    Portrait of the artist as a callow youth Youth JM Coetzee 169 pp, Seeker Disgrace, JM Coetzee's last novel, set a contemporary benchmark in good fiction. Quite apart from winning him a second Booker, it had an icy brilliance that showed up the work of other novelists, peers and young pretenders alike. By comparison many of us seem at best technically defective, at worst expressive of literary "values" he might consider pure philistinism. Although the excuse was given of a prior engagement, the a...
  • Writings Of Philo
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    Philo Judaeus is regarded as one of the greatest Jewish-Hellenistic philosophers of his age. In a majority of his writing he quotes bible verses, speaks of a path to the Lord and does so with such image producing words. While reading Philo it is hard to discern his philosophical views, and surgically placed words, from those influenced of his religious background. He brings fourth an interesting combination of philosopher poet or preacher. Philo Judaeus was very religious and portrayed such in h...
  • Alone Pages
    380 words
    reaching back for something that isn't there you suddenly feel you no longer care your once soft feelings are hard as stone and in your decisions you are now alone pages ripped out of your book of life the same as being stabbed with a butcher knife there's no direction, don't know who's the boss you feel alone, you feel so lost from an "A" to a "C" student you have turned the ripped out pages have now been burned you lost your smarts and you lost your mind you feel stuck out, a one and only kind...
  • Anthem By Ayn Rand
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    Anthem "We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great We. One, indivisible and forever". The book, Anthem by Ayn Rand, demonstrates the affects of a society which has adapted such views. The story is set in a primitive future that exploits oppression, communism, and preaches for the public good. Individualism had been completely lost and the word "I" is unknown. The protagonist is the first person who dared to be an individual. He tried to gain knowledge that had been den...
  • Lady And The Word
    484 words
    The diction and connotation that one uses within their writing is important because the words one chooses to use convey the main idea of the writing. The difference between choosing whether to use the word "lady" and the word "woman" is very different because they both have different connotations. While the word "lady" is usually used to describe a female who has high standards for proper behavior, the word "woman" is usually used to describe an adult female. "Lady" has definitely more clarity w...
  • Two Hundred And Fifty Words
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    hello hi hey what's up. What are you doing. Having fun? Do I have to do this? Is this ness cary? I'm on the Internet typing. I'm not having fun. I don't even want to do this, but I am. Do I have two hundred adn fifty words yet. I guess not. What is my favorite movie. Well I'm not going to tell you. Today is Tuesday. I wish it was Friday becuase then the weekend would be a little closer. I wonder if I have two hundred and fifty words yet. Nope. I don't have two hundred and fifty words yet. This i...
  • Freedom Of Words
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    The dirty word was spoken, she knew that she couldn't take it back. But she really wouldn't want to. Beth didn't know what was going to happen to her. It didn't matter to her anymore. She couldn't honestly claim that she had a physical desire for herself, only dreams. She wasn't delusional enough to actually believe that her dark hopes would find their footing in the world, the same world that had taught her not to expect much. She knew what the official was thinking, how he was plotting what to...
  • Thought To Page
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    "Afterword: Black Eagle Child"– by Ray Young Bear " Afterword: Black Eagle Child"– by Ray Young Bear In the spring of 1970, during a smoggy, oily-aired evening in Southern California, I jotted down what was perhaps the first outline of this book. It was a simple one and in some respects no different from the drafts to poems I later published. The one aspect, however, which made this outline stand out for many years was the intriguing set of chapter titles and synopses. Today this out...

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